[Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 22:08:35 UTC 2011


Sounds interesting. It is certainly true that wikinews was never as
successful as we had hoped. Perhaps this new project will manage more. Good
luck!
On Sep 12, 2011 9:51 PM, "Tempodivalse" <r2d2.strauss at verizon.net> wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I thought the Wikimedia community should know that a large portion of
WIkinews' contributor base has forked into its own project (
http://theopenglobe.org) after becoming deeply dissatisfied with Wikinews.
The new wiki has finished its creation stage and is about ready to publish
news articles.
>
> At least nine users have pledged to support this fork, and several others
(including non-WN Wikimedians) are interested - more than there are active
remaining Wikinews contributors.
>
> -Tempodivalse
>
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